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[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Hayden" == Hayden Wimmer <hwimmer at bakerref.com> writes:

    Hayden> how do i clear bind's cache

Restart the server: "ndc restart".

    Hayden> and where do i set the cache time option?

Nowhere. The time some resource record sits in a name server's cache
is determined by the DNS administrator who originally created that
record in one of their zone files. One of the attributes of a DNS
resource record is its time-to-live (TTL). The DNS administrator who
creates the record decides what that TTL will be, not you. Unless you
persuade every DNS administrator in the world to assign TTLs to the
records they "own" that meet your demands, your server has to accept
what it's given. So if it's told to cache some name for 5 seconds or 5
years, that's just what it has to do.